This weekend's D23 Disney fan event in California, brought along many surprises, including
some pretty big casting news for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead...
Not exact matches
Very Bad Things features a
pretty terrific
cast; while it features no real «
big time» stars other than Cameron Diaz - who only achieved that status upon the release of Mary, which happened after this film was already done - it offers a very solid list of quality actors.
I enjoyed the energy of the film, and the
cast is
pretty solid throughout, but there's a
big problem that is inherent to the idea that we have to make these films
bigger and
bigger to outdo things that have come before.
It
casts McCandless in a saintly light - likely a
pretty big stretch - but necessarily makes him a sympathetic character and strongly underscores the powerful message we're meant to take from the movie.
She called Leto's performance «
pretty impressive» because he nearly scared the crap out of her and the rest of the
cast and not simply because he gave her a live rat since he's a
big method actor.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children also boasts a
pretty impressive ensemble
cast that also includes Ella Purnell (Maleficent), Allison Janney (Mom), Terence Stamp (
Big Eyes), Rupert Everett (Hysteria), Judi Dench (Philomena) and Samuel L. Jackson.
Though he's failed to impress in his previous
big budget outings (see: «Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides» and «Snow White and the Huntsman»), he's perfectly
cast here as Finnick Odair, the cocksure
pretty boy with more to him than meets the eye.
Giving an untested director such as Chbosky complete creative control was still a
pretty big risk on the part of Summit Entertainment, but if the
casting (which includes a great group of young actors like Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller and Emma Watson in her first major post - «Harry Potter» role) is anything to go by, fans have nothing to worry about it.
Again
pretty much the trailer that's already out there, but my God, the combination of champagne and
big screen really brought it home to us just how ridiculously stacked the
cast for this one is: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Benedict Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Sam Shepard, Ewan MacGregor, Dermot Mulroney.
The
cast is
pretty solid, but the pundits suggested that this one was a
big mess.
Back to the matter of the
cast to The Lego Ninjago Movie, Jackie Chan is a
pretty big name to have in this film's voice
cast.
The
cast of fine actors, including Gabriel Byrne (End of Days), whose choice to take on this film is the
biggest head - scratcher of the film, is
pretty much wasted in this glossy and superficial scare flick.
Though the
cast delivers believably enough as one new piece of information after another alters their plans, it's
pretty clear where things are going from the first
big reveal and the film can't manage to feel fresh from that point forward.
And if that leads to a diverse
big - screen lineup — instead of
casting that, let's face it, is based on a
pretty narrow - minded, 1960s - influenced reading of US demographics — so be it.
Still, «The Making of an American Romance» is a
pretty entertaining featurette that, in addition to focusing on the two French leads and their supporting
cast, also covers many of the movie's finest moments, including the
big tap dance number at the end.
The movies also happen to be
pretty entertaining in a guilty pleasure kind of way, and it'll be great to see the whole
cast reunited for the first time since they all went their separate ways to become
big movie stars.
The
biggest problem with this
cast, however, is that Moretz and Moore are surrounded by the blandest, made - for - CW
pretty - boy
cast I've seen since Niccol's The Host; everyone else is impossibly
pretty and hopelessly wooden, making scenes featuring exclusively them tedious and tiresome.
As you can see, even though there aren't any
big stars, the
cast is still
pretty solid, with David Warner playing the aforementioned vampire hunter, Prof. Leopold McCarthy, and Paul Willson («Cheers,» «Office Space») serving as his assistant, Grimsdyke.
The computer animation in Ratchet & Clank is
pretty good — although it's probably game animation that was upgraded for the
big screen — and the game's voice
cast is joined by people like Sylvester Stallone, Paul Giamatti, Rosario Dawson and John Goodman.
A
cast of
pretty big name celebraities has been announced for the singleplayer side of things.
The cute
cast of Chameleon Twist must be feeling
pretty bitter in 2017, seeing Yooka the chameleon, of Yooka - Laylee fame, attracting
big headlines in the gaming press.
We've already announced a
pretty big portion of the
cast so far and we have to keep a few aces up our sleeve!
Meanwhile a browse through the
pretty pie charts in OFCOM's carbon audit suggests that the number of plastic coffee cups and notepaper used by OFCOM over those 16 months might have had a
bigger negative impact on the planet than any seeds of doubt
cast by Durkin's film.